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Podcast: Gosho Reading (Nichiren Buddhism)
Episode: 040 The True Aspect of All Phenomena
Description: Nichiren Daishonin wrote this letter to Sairen-bĹ NichijĹ while at Ichinosawa on Sado Island in the fifth month of the tenth year of Bunâei (1273). For some reason Sairen-bĹ was also in exile on Sado, where he had been converted by the Daishonin in the second month of 1272. A former Tendai priest, he already knew something about âthe true aspect of all phenomenaâ; it was a fundamental concept in the Tendai school of Buddhism. He could not, however, satisfactorily come to grips with this concept through Tâien-tâaiâs theory alone, so he asked the Daishonin for an explanation. The True Asp...